Madame Tutli Putli

Madame Tutli Putli è un corto animato unico nel suo genere. Sono rimasta piuttosto colpita dallo stile dell'animazione e ho cercato in internet per capire come lo hanno realizzato. Pare che sia stato girato in stop-motion con dei pupazzi, ma gli occhi dei personaggi, per esempio sembrano proprio quelli di attori in carne e ossa.
Chiaramente il film ha vinto un mucchio di premi, e non me ne stupisco essendo così artistico e bello che quasi la trama in sé risulta piuttosto insignificante per quanto incredibilmente surreale. Guardare per credere.
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Madame Tutli Putli is such a unique and striking short film. I was stunned by the animation style and I checked around the internet to try to determine HOW they did this film. it seems like it's been made by stop-motion technique with puppets and stuff like that, but the eyes of the charachters, for example, look like ones of proper actors. I am not at all surprised that the film has won a lot of awards, because it's so artistic and beautiful that the plot itself is practically insignificant, even if it's incredible and surrealistic. You just have to see it to believe it.

COMBO

L'ultimo progetto di muri dipinti e stop-motion di Blu e David Ellis... INCREDIBILE!

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Blu and David Ellis last wall painting and stop-motion project... INDCREDIBLE!

megunica

Da sempre mi hanno incuriosito i lavori di Lorenzo Fonda... vi volevo segnalare un video diario ideato da lui. Un viaggio in centro america insieme a Blu tra strade, vicoli, segni colori e volti.
...tenete d'occhio Megunica!

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I am always interested at the work of Lorenzo Fonda... I wanted to report you a video diary created by him. A trip to central america with Blu between streets, alleys, signs colors and faces.
...keep an eye on the Megunica!

un libro ed una animazione

Immaginate un enorme foglio di carta in cui Linee Rette, Triangoli, Quadrati, Pentagoni, Esagoni e altre figure, invece di restare fermi ai loro posti, si muovano liberamente per tutta la superficie... questa è Flatlandia raccontata dal protagonista Quadrato. Un avventura che ci arriva dal 1884 che parla di geometria, di nuovi mondi, di creatività, fantasia e di libertà.

Michele Emmer ha realizzato un film animato sul testo del libro Flatlandia di Edwin A. Abbot... un esempio concreto di connessione tra disegno, matematica, arte, cinema e musica.

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Image a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places...this is Flatland, is narrated by actor Square. An adventure that comes to us from 1884 that speaks of geometry, new worlds, creativity, imagination and freedom.

Michele Emmer has made an animated film based on the text of the book Flatland by Edwin A. Abbot ... a concrete example of the connections between design, mathematics, art, cinema and music.

Animation Soup

image © Naomi Nagata

Today I would talking about some discovers I made about japanese animation. Around a month ago I went in a free projection session at the CCCB (Barcelona) in which I watched a collection of short animated movies called Animation Soup. I still don’t have idea if its a collection of an animation class/school or a collective of animators. For the quality I suppose the first option. Some works were very short and sometimes totally no sense, but in the complex was funny and interesting.

I would like to have more informations about the artists or the project but all the informations I found are in japanese so I can’t continuing my research and most of the animators don’t have a website or an understandable one. But I would share with you what I found.

Yukiko Abe animated a funny story of a donout life, Naomi Nagata has a very particular technique made by levels and opaque shadows, I found her website but I can’t find more works on it. Fumi Wai created a surrealistic story of a cook that steal the sun and start to be followed from hundreds of rabbits. And Yoshimi Shimizu has made a very interesting and crazy loop work.

But the one that most interested me is Atsushi Wada and fortunately I found some of her stuff on youtube. It’s very interesting her way to represent concepts, her dreamy and scary world. Sometimes she remembers me Blu works. Have a look!



If you find/understand something more about those artists please let me know.

Sita Sings the Blues

..un film di animazione che ha suscitato in me curiosità. Per i differenti stili di animazione con cui è disegnato e per la politica attraverso la quale l'autrice Nina Paley rende accessibile il suo film.

Distribuite, copiate, condividete con altri, Sita Sings the Blues lo trovate qui: www.sitasingstheblues.com

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..one animation film that has provoked in me curiosity. For the different styles of animation with which it is designed and for the politics through which the author Nina Paley distributes her film.

Distribute, copy, share with others Sita Sings the Blues: www.sitasingstheblues.com